WooCommerce

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WooCommerce
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Original author(s) Mike Jolley, James Koster
Developer(s) Automattic
Initial release 2011 (2011)[1]
Stable release 2.5.5 (March 11, 2016; 8 years ago (2016-03-11)[2]) [±]
Written in PHP
Operating system WordPress
Type e-commerce
License GPL
Website woothemes.com/woocommerce/

WooCommerce is an open source e-commerce plugin for WordPress. It is designed for small to large-sized online merchants using WordPress. Launched on September 27, 2011,[3] the plugin quickly became popular for its simplicity to install and customize and free base product.[4]

History

WooCommerce was first developed by WordPress theme developer WooThemes,[5] who hired Mike Jolley and James Koster, developers at Jigowatt, to work on a fork of Jigoshop[6][7] that became WooCommerce.[8] In August 2014, 381,187 sites (or 17.77% of e-commerce sites online).[9]

In November 2014, the first WooConf, a conference focusing on eCommerce using WooCommerce was held in San Francisco, California. It attracted 300 attendees.[10]

In May 2015, WooThemes and WooCommerce were acquired by Automattic, operator of WordPress.com and core contributor to the WordPress software.[11]

Usage

WooCommerce has been adopted by over 380,000 online retailers.[12] It is used by a number of high-traffic websites, among them are Internet Systems Consortium and Small Press Expo.[13] For the 3rd week of September 2015, Trends indicated that WooCommerce ran on 30%[14] of e-commerce sites and millions of active installs.[15]

WooCommerce has attracted significant popularity as the base product, in addition to many extensions and plugins, is free and open source. In addition, there are thousands of paid add-ons for fixed prices. However, web developers have listed compatibility issues with WordPress, a steeper learning curve, lack of live support, and dependence on large numbers of plugins (which can decrease performance) as disadvantages.[16]

See also

References

  1. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  2. ↑ {{cite web | url=https://wordpress.org/plugins/woocommerce/changelog/ | title=WooCommerce - excelling eCommerce | publisher=WordPress | accessdate=2016
  3. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  4. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  5. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  6. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  7. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  8. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  9. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.[non-primary source needed]
  10. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.[non-primary source needed]
  11. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  12. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.[non-primary source needed]
  13. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  14. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  15. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.[non-primary source needed]
  16. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.

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